English version Dear readers, we would like to provide to our previous post, the following clarifications: The offending company is "opentld.com" and its known trademark is "Freenom.com". The Gabonese entity is "my.ga" and it is this entity which provides the Gabonese domain names using the domain name sales systems of the previous company "Freenom.com". Cyriaque Nkouna is the one who negotiated the management contract of Gabon domain names with that company in exchange for a percentage of all the domain names sold. Nobody knows that percentage.

English version ICANN is an organization responsible for the security, stability and global coordination of the Internet's unique identifiers system. ICANN manages an accreditation system for registrars, which ensures stable and consistent environment for the domain name mechanism, and therefore for the Internet worldwide. ICANN has published on its website that it has decided to suspend the Gabonese company responsible for assigning domain names in Gabon, a company headed by Cyriaque Nkouna, formerly of the ANINF, and a relative of Ali Bongo (you guessed it). The reason for this suspension? ICANN has discovered that this Gabonese company was engaged in a domain name trafficking, attributing then in a fishy and often murky manner to third parties whose legitimacy was not always evident. Dear readers, remember that sometimes ago, we discovered that a group having terrorists tentacles had its domain name registered in Gabon. If you still wonder how this was possible, you now have the an…

English version The trial of the Pujol family mafia network continues to reveal its secrets. An article in the Spanish press indicates that this network was given the opportunity to acquire for peanuts, the position of consul of Gabon in Barcelona. Here below is the translation of that article (we inform you that Joseph Duro, mentioned in the article, is the Honorary Consul of Gabon in Andorra, a tax haven).

“Junior” acquires the position of consul of GaboneseHe got the possibility of buying the role for 102,000 eurosJordi Pujol Ferrusola, eldest son of former president of the Generalitat, was offered the purchase of the position of consul of Gabon in Barcelona. According to a letter from Junior’s partner in 2001 addressed to the contact of the African country, Joseph Duro, published by La Razon, the position was for sale for a price of 17 million pesetas (about 102,172 euros).The letter specifies that the consul’s position is intended to be sold for that figure and asks his partners an…

OUT OF AFRICAFORMER AKRON CHEF CREATING HIGH-END INTERNATIONAL CUISINE

When Chef Andreas Arreola, 29, communicates with his mostly French-speaking kitchen staff, he relies on the universal language of food."I know how to say 'pot' and I know how to say 'pan,'" he said with a laugh. "I haven't quite mastered how to say 'hello' yet, but I'm getting there."Arreola, a longtime Akron, Iowa, resident, is in his fifth month as the chef de cuisine of MESA, a Mexican restaurant in Libreville, the capital city of the Gabonese Republic on the west coast of Central Africa.Yes, you read that right.There actually is an authentic Mexican restaurant in Sub-Saharan Africa. Arreola said it's among several high-end, international eateries owned by the family of Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba."The president likes to come in twice a month to MESA, but he orders food to go,&…

English version For over a year, a financial and political scandal shakes Spain, specifically the Catalan region, that is to say Barcelona where Lionel Messi currency monetizes his talents, where Omar Bongo died, and the now privileged destination of Ali Bongo who says that he has many friends there. The Spanish court has indicted several members of the Pujol family, accused of using mafia techniques to engage in extortion, systematic corruption of the country's institutions, of tax evasion, of money laundering etc... The patriarch of this clan is none other than Jordi Pujol, former President of Catalonia, which has already been charged with tax evasion and money laundering towards Swiss and Andorran banks. The eldest son of the family, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, was found guilty to have benefited from shares in companies without any contribution justifying such shares, simply because he could influence the award of contracts to these companies. According to the Spanish justice authoritie…

English version This Thursday, 24 September 2015, Ali Bongo should have in Nantes, presented his birth certificate, as part of a legal complaint lodged by one of the heirs of Omar Bongo, asking Ali Bongo to prove the parentage making him one of the heirs. The complainant has already released a genuine birth certificate, making her the acknowledged daughter of Omar Bongo. But on Wednesday, 23 September 2015, the lawyers of both parties were informed of the postponement of the hearing because the Ali Bongo camp failed to introduce at trial, the crucial piece of evidence as required. The judge of the court in Nantes summoned Ali Bongo to provide this piece of evidence within 15 days. So, Ali Bongo has 15 days to again manufacture a false birth certificate.

In an express edition, La Lettre du Continent informs us that the mansion called Pozzo Di Borgo, on the rue de l'Université in Paris, acquired by Ali Bongo early in 2010 through Maixent Accrombessi and with financial and legal signatures respectively by Blaise Louembet and Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo (converted for the occasion into a business lawyer), has been seized by the French legal authorities.

This seizure is conservatory and responds to a complaint by Guido Santullo, an Italian businessman, owner of the construction group Sericom, which after executing a number of projects in Gabon, is asking for the settlement of a debt of 130 billion CFA francs.

Ali Bongo and Accrombessi are said to have mandated Yves Fernand Manfoumbi to negotiate with the businessman, given that Accrombessi has to keep a low profile since his arrest.

English version Recently in Gabon, we have witnessed the arrest among others of Mrs. Georgette Toussaint and Annie Meye; and Mr. Christian Kombegnondo and Serge Mabiala. The peculiarity of these arrests is that they affect people who at one time or another expressed reservations through their actions, toward the Bongo regime. These arrests lead us to the conclusion that justice in Gabon is used to punish political troublemakers and not to control crime in the country by sanctioning behaviors prohibited by the law. To be effective, justice must be blind, that is to say, it must apply to all on an equal basis. The impartiality of justice is expressed in all countries, through the representation of Themis, the goddess of justice, wearing a blindfold and having scales in his hand. If the scales represent the balance and fairness of bringing judgment after weighing the arguments of the various parties in order to achieve justice; the blindfold covering the eyes of the goddess Themi…

English version The fight against ritual crimes in Gabon is starting to be heard internationally. Created on Twitter in March 2013, with the help of Anonymous, #OpGabon regularly denounces ritual crimes in Gabon; this triggered the great movement of awareness on the ground that we did experience, a movement that was short-circuited by Sylvia Bongo helped by Bishop Basile Mvé and others unfortunately corrupted. But fortunately the #OpGabon movement has gone beyond the borders of Gabon to become a global struggle through the new hashtag on twitter #OpDeathEaters, used by all those who are interested and want to denounce ritual crimes, sexual abuse against children, in particular with a ritualistic aim (pédosadisme), organ and children trafficking, etc. Often the research in Gabon indicates that political elites are involved in these crimes and they have networks with ramifications in several African countries. But if the denunciation movement has become global, we unfortunately found tha…

English version Daniel Franck Idiata, one of the most faithful emergent of the supposed Gabonese intelligentsia, has published in Jeune Afrique an indictment against that magazine article accusing the Gabonese people of xenophobia. If the content of Mr. Idiata argument generally joins ours, concerning this article, we cannot ignore the fact that he concludes in a cavalier way that the burning of the Benin’s embassy is attributable to people who thought Maixent Accrombessi responsible for the death of Andre Mba Obame. If this may be an hypothesis, it is necessary to remind Mr. Idiata that he only has the discredited speculation of Bobo the toothless, as evidence for this assertion. So it is impossible for him to say anything about the motive of this fire without firm evidence; and so far we believe that these evidences have never been demonstrated. Some compatriots such as Mrs. Toussaint and Meye went …

English version From the hubbub of those in power regarding the Moukagni-Iwangou case, this blog will go to the essentials. For us, the episode can be summarized as follows: 1. Ali Bongo needed a big fish of the opposition as a symbol at his side to demonstrate to Hollande that his regime was open. 2. He set in motion his networks led by Maixent Accrombessi, using close relatives of Moukagni-Iwangou, to obtain from him his entrance into the government, to serve as an alibi. 3. Moukagni-Iwangou in the end refused this offer and Ali Bongo was embarrassed because he had started to exhibit his great catch before making sure it was in his net. What one of our insightful readers called a political "premature ejaculation" by Ali Bongo! Dear readers, all the noise surrounding this case, made by those in power, is intended only to restore the little crest they have left because they were caught in their own trap and failed to read the signs of the time that placed all th…

English version Dear readers, in a special edition published urgency, La Lettre du Continent tells us many things. Apparently, during his recent visit to Paris to meet François Hollande, Ali Bongo very worried about the recent arrest of his chief of staff, Maixent Accrombessi, did under the guidance of his new guru in communication, Anne Hommel, certainly with his checkbook in hand, decide on an all-out offensive in communication to improve his image. Thus, La Lettre du Continent tells us that the famous interview on Europe 1 with Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, was staged, because Ali Bongo had a previous long work meeting in his suite at the George V with... the same Jean-Pierre Elkabbach for a session designed to prepare that interview. Dear readers, what La Lettre du Continent is trying to make us understand is that Elkabbach and Ali Bongo met at the George V for a practice of the famous interview on Europe 1, to agree on the questions and answers etc. ... and once satisfied,…